A CLOSE ALLIANCE
GERMANY, ITALY, AND JAPAN PACT READY FOR SIGNING MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON. Nov. 28. (Received Nov. 28. at 10 p.m.)
The News Chronicle announces that after several months of negotiation to transform the anti-Comintern pact into a close alliance of great military significance the German. Italian and Japanese alliance awaits signture. All three have officially endorsed the text, the main points of which provide that the remaining members will assist diplomatically, politically and economically any one which an outside Power or group of Powers threatens. All three will consult with regard to measures of assistance by two if one is attacked. No separate peace or armistice will be concluded if two or three signatories are simultaneously engaged in war. The duration of the alliance is 10 years, and a further five years if not denounced. Herr Hitler is ready to sign immediately, and Count Ciano agrees in principle but seeks a few months' delay if necessary. The recent Italian-German and German-Japanese cultural pacts were a prelude to a close collaboration in a direct military aliance. A Japanese-Hungarian pact, similar in character, is to be signed shortly.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23669, 29 November 1938, Page 9
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194A CLOSE ALLIANCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23669, 29 November 1938, Page 9
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